Synonyms and antonyms of Farmers and people who work on farms in British Thesaurus

bailiff (noun)

British someone whose job is to look after a farm or land that belongs to someone else

cattleman (noun)

mainly American someone who owns or looks after cattle

cowboy (noun)

a man whose job is to look after cows on a ranch in the US

cowgirl (noun)

a woman whose job is to look after cows on a ranch in the US

cowhand (noun)

someone whose job is to look after cows on a ranch in the US

crofter (noun)

someone who lives and works on a croft

farmer (noun)

someone who owns a farm or manages it as their job

farmhand (noun)

someone whose job is to work outside on a farm

field hand (noun)

American a farmhand

gaucho (noun)

a South American cowboy

gentleman farmer (noun)

Britishold-fashioned a rich man who has a farm on his land but who does not need it for his main income

goatherd (noun)

someone whose job is to look after goats

grower (noun)

a person, company, or place that grows a type of plant or crop

hand (noun)

someone who works on a farm

herdsman (noun)

someone who herds and looks after a group of animals as their job

hired hand (noun)

someone who is hired to work on a farm, especially for a short period of time

jackaroo (noun)

Australianinformal a young man who is learning to work on a sheep or cattle farm

land agent (noun)

British someone whose job is look after a farm or an area of land that belongs to someone else

land girl (noun)

a young woman who worked on a farm during the Second World War

milkmaid (noun)

an old word meaning ‘a woman whose job is to milk cows’

peasant (noun)

someone who works on another person’s farm or on their own small farm. This word is used mainly about people in poor countries or people in history

picker (noun)

a person or machine that picks fruit or other crops

planter (noun)

someone who owns or is in charge of a plantation

ploughman (noun)

a man whose job is to control a plough pulled by a horse or an ox

rancher (noun)

someone who owns or manages a ranch, or someone whose job is to work on a ranch

sharecropper (noun)

mainly American a farmer who grows crops on someone else’s land and receives part of the money earned from selling the crops

shearer (noun)

someone whose job is to cut the wool from sheep

shepherd (noun)

a man whose job is to look after sheep

shepherdess (noun)

old-fashioned a woman whose job is to look after sheep

smallholder (noun)

someone who owns a very small farm

stockman (noun)

a man whose job is to look after farm animals

swineherd (noun)

an old word for someone whose job was to look after pigs

tenant farmer (noun)

a farmer who rents land from someone else

yeoman (noun)

British an old word for a man who owned the land that he worked on

yeomanry (noun)

British an old word for a group of men who owned the land that they worked on